Session Information
| Title | Fighting Childhood Obesity Through the Use of Technology - Changing the Evil Reputation of "Screen Time" |
| Presenter(s) | Jorian Clarke, Founder & CEO, Circle 1 Network |
| Time | Friday, October 22, 2:30p-3:30p |
| Location | Ballroom |
| Format | Speaker |
| Description | While children are increasingly getting engaged and adept at exploring new uses of technology for creativity, collaboration and communication, for the most part, adults stand paralyzed. Children's fascination and use of technology continues to grow in usage time spent and creative applications developed. While adults still have a love/hate relationship festering of increasing "digital babysitter" dependency and perception that screen time is the evil causal villain of inactivity and intellectual doom. As adult digital experts, how can we help foster a multi-generational acceptance and usage of technology to benefit youth by providing them more wisdom in their selection and usage of the powerful tools available while developing acceptance and support for technology with adult influencers of children in order to engage them in more effective collaboration with kids using technology available? Our specific goal: how can the digital world and the "real world" intersect to fight childhood obesity?
Hear about our experiences with both generation groups and what we learned through the use of our virtual world simulations and games to teach about nutrition and fitness, combined with pilot experiences in augmented reality and mobile apps used in real garden locations in the United States. |